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10 Dec 2016 2:46:18pm

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This article is dripping with wisdom, in my estimation and experience. It deserves close reflection, I would suggest, by anyone who may suspect that there may be an imbalance of the sexual in their lives. I guess that without reflection, we can easily miss the fact that integration of the sexual in our lives is a long journey and perhaps a lifetime journey, depending possibly on how early or late we undertake to consciously work on this integrating process.

I point to two sentences that stand out for me in the article: "The challenge, then, is to liberate the deep eros of our existence into its true proportions", and "Sexual desire, then, is too often made to carry the whole passion, the whole erotic charge of existence. When that is the case, diminishment is the result." My life experience would be a deep verification of these statments.

I dont think we should 'knock' the author because he is a celebate priest either; he is basically a human being wrestling with the integration of his sexuality, like the rest of us AND has the added advantage probably of being a confidant of those who are also genuinely struggling with the same issues.

The broad test that this article poses as to the implications or outcome of more or less integrating / not integrating our sexuality i.e. our connectedness to,love of and harmony with (I am obviously putting my own take on his words is saying that) all that is outside ourselves - is a good measure to use in self-reflection in our own particular case, I think, to see where we are at on the journey if integration.